multiscreen

multiscreen

English

Etymology

    From multi- + screen.

    Adjective

    multiscreen (not comparable)

    1. Having multiple screens.
      • 1988 October 7, Anthony Adler, “Some Men Need Help”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
        That theater's a multiscreen movie complex now, but it used to house an in-the-round stage with fat, soft, fall-asleep seats and lots of garish red carpeting.

    Noun

    multiscreen (plural multiscreens)

    1. A cinema with more than one screen.
      • 1997, AIMAC Proceedings, page 492:
        Multiscreens can show blockbusters which have not yet attracted their full audience.
      • 2017, Stephen Dowle, The National Bus Company: The Middle Years:
        Conventional cinemas had now mostly been converted to 'multiscreens'; []

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